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Ask HN: Can you please add transcription to vocal messages in messaging apps?

I know that there are employees of big tech companies lurking around here. I have a feature request.

Can you please add the ability to see the transcript of a vocal message on messaging apps like Teams, Signal, Telegram, Messenger, Discord, Slack, Whatsapp, etc?

I know that live transcription is already a thing so it must be feasible, right?

This feature would be super useful to see what was said without having to playback a bunch of vocal messages.

I had the idea of doing this myself a long time ago but I basically needed to recreate the entire messaging infrastructure just to add this feature. So I donate the idea here.

75 points nassimsoftware 5 years ago 36 comments

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